Daisy and the Dead (Book 4): Elijah and the New World by Bale Sarah

Author:Bale, Sarah [Bale, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Zombies
Published: 2018-11-07T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

Elijah

Bobby shook my hand. “Damn good of you to come here. My cousin was wrong about a lot of things, including you.”

We’d just spent the better part of the afternoon talking, making sure we were on the same page. I didn’t want him to come knocking on our door one day, trying to get the hospital back. On the other hand, he needed to know that I had no beef with his group since Wyatt was gone. As long as we could respect each other then we were good.

“I wouldn’t say that, sir. I made a lot of mistakes in the past.”

“But it seems like you’re making up for them now. And no one is perfect.”

I replied, “I’m going to do my best to make things right.”

And that meant speaking to the people who had once lived under my protection. If the human race was going to survive, we had to stop fighting each other.

Bobby stood, knees popping. He shot me a grin when he realized I’d heard.

“Cold weather’s about to move in. I haven’t been this achy since the winter of 2009.” He rubbed his knee. “That was the same winter we had the blizzard.”

I replied, “I remember. I was in surgery and couldn’t leave the parking lot by the time I got out because of snow drifts.”

Blizzards in Oklahoma were rare. In the winter of 2009, the drifts had been over six feet in some areas. Thousands of people were stranded on the roads and some even died.

Bobby nodded. “That should have been our warning that the world was about to go to shit. Mother Nature seemed to know what was going to happen. We just didn’t listen to the old gal.”

I followed him from the office. Being in that room brought back memories I didn’t care to remember. But this man was different than Wyatt, so I was willing to look past my own pain and sit in the same chair I’d been in when Wyatt had cut my arm the first time.

As we walked I asked, “Have you had any communication from Texas?”

I’d wondered for a while if Lilly had been telling the truth about the communication between groups. She’d known certain facts, so it was possible she told the truth. But I needed to know for sure.

“You mean through the networking system? Nah. The runner never showed up. Figured he got killed or took off. No skin off my back.”

I said, “It’s still hard to believe that a system like that existed.”

He said, “It was severely flawed, but, I’ll give it to that gal in Texas who set it up. She was scary, but smart.”

That sounded like Daisy’s cousin for sure.

We reached the back door and stepped out to the courtyard. Before me were several faces I recognized, some that didn’t look happy to see me.

Amos, a man who used to work for me, crossed his arms. “Bobby, what’s this all about? Why were we all summoned and why is he here?”

He glared at me as he finished speaking.

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